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OnPositive Psychology: Science of Valuing
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Starting point of POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
“Half the century clinical psychology has been consumed by a single topic only - mental illness"
Seligman
Echoing Maslow’s comments (Motivation and Personality, 1954).
Seligman urged psychologists to continue the earlier missions of psychology of nurturing talent and improving normal life.
TWO APPROACHES TO IMPROVE HUMAN CONDITION
a)To relieve from what is NEGATIVE
The mainstream Psychology
b) To strengthen what is POSITIVE
The Positive Psychology
Positive Psychology Defined
Positive psychology is the scientific study of what enables individuals and communities to thrive" –
International Positive Psychology Association.
ExponentsMartin SeligmanAmerican Psycho. Prof.DirectorPositive Psychology
Center Uni. of Pennsylvania
Mihaly Csikeszentmihalyi
Hungarian Psycho. Prof. Claremont Graduate Uni. U S A
Premise People want to lead
meaningful and fulfilling lives, to cultivate what is best within themselves, and to enhance their experiences of love, work, and play.
Eventually Positive Psychology
The first positive psychology summit, 1999.
The First International Conference on
Positive Psychology, 2002.
In 2006, a course on Positive Psychology
introduced at Harvard University.
In June 2009, First World Congress on
Positive Psychology.
RootsHumanistic psychologists—such as Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, and Erich Fromm—developed theories and practices that involved human happiness. Empirical support from studies by positive psychologists directed to
Find and nurture genius and talentMake normal life more fulfilling Ensure well-being of man kind.Complement, not to replace traditional
psychology.
More Support “We see what we look
for and we miss much of what we are not looking for even though it is there... Our experience of the world is heavily influenced by where we place our attention.”
Stavros and Torres
CONCERNSStrength as with
weakness Building the best things
in life as inRepairing the worst Making the lives of
normal people fulfilling as with healing pathology
Seligman, 2007
Operational DimensionsIdentifying
positive emotions,
positive individual
traits, and
positive
institutions
Identification of Positive EmotionsContentment
with the past, Happiness in the
present, and Hope for the
future
Identification of Positive Traits
strengths and virtues, such as the capacity for love and work, courage, compassion, resilience, creativity, curiosity, integrity, self-knowledge, moderation, self-control, and wisdom
Understanding positive institutions
Entails the study of the strengths that foster better communities, such as justice, responsibility, civility, parenting, nurturance, work ethic, leadership, teamwork, purpose, and tolerance
Talents to Strengths to VirtuesTalent more innate, non-moral and can be
wasted, but when refined with knowledge and skills form basis of strengths.
A strength is a natural capacity for behaving, thinking, or feeling in a way that allows optimal functioning and
performance in the pursuit of valued outcomes
(Linley & Harrington, 2006)
Strengths when guided for GOOD turn in to VIRTUES
Virtues and Happiness “What is the highest of all goals
achievable by actions?...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say it is happiness…but with regard to what happiness is, they differ.”
Aristotle, Nicomachean, Ethics
Book 1, Chapter 4
Happiness
The 3 ‘happy’ lives The pleasant life - positive emotion & the skills to amplify it. Pleasure, enjoying life, hobbies,
relationships, etc..The good life - engagement, absorption, ‘flow’
confidence and satisfaction accomplishing tasks The meaningful life – using your strengths in the service of something greater than yourself
contributing to something bigger. (Martin Seligman,
2003)
Positive Psychology Techniques
• Using signature strengths in a new way• Three good things in life• Three things that went well each day along
with their causes• Gratitude Visit• Write a letter of gratitude and then deliver it.• You at your best• Write about a time at your best, review once
a day for a weekSeligman, Stein, Park, &
Peterson 2005
More TechniquesExercises to increase positive
feelings, engagement, & meaning:performing acts of kindnessPlan pleasurable activities with
savoring Counting one’s blessings-
blessings journalUsing talents and/or signature
strengths in novel ways3 doors that closed and 3 doors
that then opened
Still More Techniques• find a challenging
hobby
• performing secret good
deeds
• writing one’s own
legacy
• working for a valued
institution
Education and Positive PsychologyBeing Virtuous is the real Education
which is endorsed by Positive Psychology.
Diversity is beauty of Educational canvass Positive Psychology provides the space.
Education essentially should promote Happiness, Positive Psychology keeps it as Focus of operations.
Education believes no learner is hopeless, Positive Psychology provides hope for low performers.
Let's use mind in pursuit of happiness and good life
Embrace the POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
Don't judge a day by the weather. Regardless of climate, create a good day.
-David L. Hanson
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